Defining The Wild: A 27 Day Ski Traverse In the Canadian Rockies
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2017
- Footage captured during a ski traverse in the Canadian Rockies from Yellowhead Lake to the Big Bend of the Icefields Parkway. Skiing by means of Fraser Pass, Athabasca Pass, Kinbasket Lake and then the Central Great Divide Ski Traverse Route. The route included ascents of The Cube Ridge, Mount Clemenceau, Tusk Peak, and Castleguard Mountain.
Featuring (in no particular order), Liam Harrap, Josh Dunn, Zak Dunn-Allen, and James Brown.
Other images and information from the trip are online at benthereclimbedthat.ca/content... and benthereclimbedthat.ca/content...
Using Music from the RUclips Audio Archive licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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Great video. Beer , smokes, snow....thanks
Stunning! Been there twice, but never went to the backside of the mountains. What a journey!
Good video, nice trip. I've skied up Castleguard and done a couple of 10 day traverses, I can imagine what skiing for 27 days would be like. Very, very hard, but so rewarding.
It's the second time I end up watching this video. Completely by accident. But it's such a beautiful adventure, and well shot and edited, I'll watch it to the end again ! totally worth it.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Impressive split skiing at 5:53 !!
Yup, Josh makes split-skiing look far easier than it is!
Beautiful!........and no mention of extreme anything! Thanks for sharing the journey and stoking the collective fire!
Thanks James. It is a pretty easy area to get stoked for, pretty cool terrain!
I really enjoyed watching this. You guys are a bunch of sick dudes!! Thank you for sharing and happy adventures.
Thanks!
A very cool route - looked like you had awesome weather - brought back some memories for me for sure - I’ve done a few ski traverses from Chic Scott’s guidebook but then I got old and turned to golf - beats five days in a whiteout on Columbia Icefields -
Epic! Definitely on my list!!
A 'definitive' journey into Rocky Mountain wonderland ;)
Thanks for sharing this (epic) adventure!
I enjoyed that, nice trip. What time of year was that?
Wilderness to me is quite simply "Where people ain't"
Thanks! April and May of last year.
Hey Ben, can you please share gpx track? What time did you guys do this?
That is an immense and impressive undertaking. Inspiring! I’m looking into it for myself and buddies for this coming season. Any thing you’d change about the way you did the route, gear you brought, etc.?
It seemed to work pretty well for our crew. We are much more on the heavy packing end of the spectrum, but on the upside less worried about long bouts of poor weather. I had done the North/Central GDT before in 2014 when we went over the Hooker Icefield with a cache at Fortress Lake; that route was more scenic than going down to the Kinbasket.
@@BenNearingburg I don't know the route too well honestly, but I want to go all the way to Wapta Lake at the south end and start at Marmot Basin Ski Area which I believe is what the original crew with Chic Scott did in 67. How closely did you follow that route?
Any route files?
I think I'd define wilderness as: if you need help and rescuers have to come get you in a helicopter, you're in the wilderness. This definition ends up including some places where you can still see city lights but I think that's okay. Those places still require you have some level of self-sufficiency.
hey Ben! sick video. how did you carry enough food?
Hey. We had two different resupply points. The boat that swapped out two folks for the trip bought more food and then we did a 6 day trip earlier in the winter dragging a cache up to Snowy Pass (burying it so we could snag it when passing by on the 'big trip').
If you can call a helicopter at any point in time then you were never in wilderness. Wilderness is a divestment from modernity, it's not a place.
Opinion.